Envivio has been awarded the prestigious 2008 TelcoTV Vision Award for its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications. Selection was spearheaded by a panel of industry experts who sought to identify the year's most innovative product among all encoding technologies for mobile or terrestrial applications. The award was received at a ceremony held during this week's TelcoTV 2008 conference in Anaheim, California.

"I congratulate Envivio, for its vision and leadership in the encoding space," said Joe Braue, SVP and Group Director, Light Reading. "Our panel of judges was impressed with the 4Caster C4's ability to output live content to multiple screens and its proven interoperability with all video enabled mobile handsets, common PC players and IPTV set-top boxes."

The 4Caster C4 convergence encoding system is the world's first to provide video compression for all Three Screens of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile devices – on a single platform. Designed to enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the 4Caster C4 is able to take multiple channels of content and encode them simultaneously to deliver multiple mobile TV profiles, multiple Internet TV profiles, or SD and HD IPTV profiles.

During this week's TelcoTV 2008 event, Envivio also announced that the 4Caster C4 has been qualified by the Microsoft Mediaroom Interoperability and Qualification Lab (IQ Lab), a program designed to ensure long-term interoperability and compliance of encoders and other critical components intended to support deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.

"In a complex and changing video delivery landscape, operators need core systems that provide the flexibility to meet a wide variety of demands," said Julien Signès, President and CEO of Envivio. "The unique design of the 4Caster C4 sets it apart from the more typical one dimensional products on the market, enabling the 4Caster C4 to effectively meet the needs of any delivery network. We are very pleased that the judges recognized the strengths of this product."

The 4Caster C4 supports digital, analog and MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP inputs and a range of video and audio encoding options to enable efficient delivery of content to the Three Screens. The 4Caster C4 supports one channel of high definition or multiple channels of standard definition encoding for IPTV with support for Picture in Picture. It also offers multi-profile encoding support for Internet TV up to VGA resolution, and for mobile TV streaming. For IPTV applications, 4Caster C4 can be delivered in either Premium Compression or Extreme Compression encoding configurations using Envivio's flexible encoding core. For Internet TV applications, 4Caster C4 can deliver content for playback in Windows Media Player, QuickTime and VLC. For Mobile TV applications, 4Caster C4 can deliver 3GPP, 3GPP2 compliant streams for playback on a wide variety of mobile devices.

Envivio's unique high-availability hardware platform combined with an embedded software encoding core offers levels of service flexibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional hardware-only compression platforms. Encoding performance can be upgraded with each software release with no need to buy and install new hardware. New services and features can be added in the same way.